The filers try to save state so they know what machines are clients of theirs.

Go ahead and blow away the /etc/sm/recover and/or the /etc/sm/state files.

It doesn't hurt the filer; the filer will regenerate those files when it needs them, but it'll get rid of the error messages from the filer trying to talk to machines that don't exist anymore.

Amy

What you say makes sense, but the only files in /etc/sm are : state,monitor, and notify. I tried moving /etc/sm/state but the messages are still coming.

Is it safe to remove all files in the /etc/sm directory?

The F330 is running version 3.1c

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